SIR JOHN MILLS - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 100519

JOHN MILLS
The British actor signs on a 5¼x3¼ card
Signatures: "John Mills" 5¼x3¼ album leaf. Two unknown signatures on front and verso. Stage, screen and television actor, Sir John Mills (1908-2005), born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills (1908-2005), was one of Britain's most popular actors, appearing in over 120 films and made-for-TV movies over his career, which spanned eight decades. The winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Ryan's Daughter (1970), Mills was also nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor (Dramatic) in 1962 for Ross. His favorite film was Tunes of Glory (1960), in which he co-starred with fellow British actor Alec Guinness (the two had previously teamed up in 1946 in Great Expectations). The father of actresses Juliet and Hayley Mills, he appeared with Hayley in 1961's The Parent Trap (Mills had appeared in his own Disney Movie, The Swiss Family Robinson, in 1960). His other films include Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), Around the World in 80 Days (1956, cameo), Young Winston (1972), The Big Sleep (1978), The Thirty-Nine Steps (1978) and Gandhi (1982) as well as made-for-TV movies such as A Tale of Two Cities (1991). Mills, who was knighted in 1976, published his autobiography, Up in the Clouds, Gentlemen, Please, in 1981, nearly a quarter of a century before his death at age 97. We have been unable to find information on Fairbanks and Dohan. Worth of further research. Lightly soiled. Slightly worn at upper blank edge, binding holes at blank left edge. Overall, fine condition.